Combine Skills and MCP to Close the Context Gap — Pedro Rodrigues, Supabase
Pedro Rodrigues from Supabase shares key lessons from building an agent skill to work with Postgres and Supabase. He explains why critical security rules must go in the main skill file, the importance of pointing to living documentation, and how providing opinionated workflow guidance closes the reliability gap for agents in production systems.
MCP UI: Extending the frontier — Liad Yosef and Ido Salomon, MCP Apps
MCP Apps transform tools into interactive UI inside hosts like ChatGPT and VS Code. This summary covers the core architecture, the paradigm shift towards a 'new web' of composable UI, and the future of distributing applications in an agent-first world.
Skill Issue: How We Used AI to Make Agents Actually Good at Supabase — Pedro Rodrigues, Supabase
A deep dive into building, testing, and iterating on Agent Skills to improve AI agent performance. This workshop covers the core concepts of progressive disclosure, eval-driven development, and practical application using a real-world Supabase and PostgreSQL security scenario.
CLI vs MCP: How AI Agents Choose the Right Tool for the Job
AI agents can interact with the world through either the Command Line Interface (CLI) or the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This summary explores the trade-offs between the two, highlighting CLI's efficiency for tasks the model is trained on, versus MCP's power of abstraction and governance for more complex, high-level operations.
Full Workshop: Build Your Own Deep Research Agents - Louis-François Bouchard, Paul Iusztin, Samridhi
This hands-on workshop details the construction of a sophisticated, dual-part AI system for producing high-quality technical content. It begins with an MCP-powered deep research agent that autonomously plans, searches the web, and analyzes sources like YouTube to synthesize a grounded research artifact. The second part is a constrained, deterministic writing workflow that transforms this research into polished, non-sloppy content using an innovative "Evaluator-Optimizer" pattern for iterative refinement. The session emphasizes crucial AI engineering principles, such as choosing between agentic and workflow-based architectures, and concludes with a deep dive into implementing practical observability and evaluation pipelines to ensure the system is both measurable and improvable.
What AI Agent Skills Are and How They Work
AI agents, powered by LLMs, excel at reasoning but lack the procedural knowledge required for real-world workflows. Martin Keen explains how the 'agent skills' open standard solves this by packaging step-by-step instructions, enabling agents to automate complex tasks efficiently and reliably.